Who is being helped, and who is being harmed by a school’s transgender policies?
This is the question asked by a parent in an article on the Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans website. The question is a very personal one for this parent, who has a “gender non-conforming” daughter, but in “How Schools Can Better Support Gender Non-Conforming Kids” this parent shows how all students can be negatively impacted by currently accepted practices.
This article is a challenge to school administrators to consider carefully this parent’s question when setting policies relating to transgender issues. It is a very comprehensive, reasoned, carefully written piece that can also guide parents, teachers, counselors, and any other adults who want to support all children and teens, both those who struggle with gender confusion and those who do not but who may be finding gender ideology complicated and confusing.
This parent sees three steps in this process:
STEP ONE
“Stop conflating ‘gender non-conforming’ and ‘transgender’. . . these two descriptors are not the same thing.”
“‘Gender non-conforming,’ says Dr. Erica Anderson, “simply means a person who does not adhere to the societal stereotypes of his or her sex. Almost everyone I know is gender non-conforming in some way” — in the way they dress, in their interests, in their abilities, in their actions. They are not transgender. They do not want to become the opposite sex. They should not be grouped with the opposite sex. They are not the opposite sex.
To be continued
